Downhill Traverse: Traveling
With the Clinton Camp

A Reporter Details
Poignant Signposts
Of Falling Fortunes

Last November, when I joined Hillary Clinton's traveling press corps, the campaign possessed an air of inevitability.

With name recognition and seemingly bottomless fund-raising coffers, Sen. Clinton operated almost like an incumbent. While other candidates took bus tours across Iowa, the former first lady and her top aides flew from town to town on a sleek...